Dr LIU Jia, PhD student
The Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering (BEEE) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is pleased to report that Dr LIU Jia, our PhD student who is under the supervision of Prof YANG Hongxing, has been selected for the Faculty of Construction and Environment (FCE) Awards for Outstanding PhD Theses 2021/22 on account of the excellent quality of PhD thesis and outstanding performance in the oral presentation.
To recognize outstanding PhD students in the FCE who have distinguished themselves with the quality of their theses for the PhD degree at PolyU, the Faculty has established the ‘FCE Awards for Outstanding PhD Theses’.
Only full-time and part-time PhD students registered under FCE whose PhD theses’ overall quality were rated as “excellent” by the Board of Examiners (BoE) concerned and whose degrees have been ratified by the Graduate School Board (GSB) between 1 July of the preceding year and 30 June of the application year are eligible to be nominated for the academic year concerned.
In the thesis, Dr LIU developed new robust energy planning and optimization approaches of renewable energy and electric energy (RE-EES) systems for residential buildings. A novel EMS and design optimization framework is proposed for a real PV-battery system and experiments on a PV-battery system are conducted for model validation. A novel TOU grid penalty cost business model is proposed to improve grid flexibility and economy for NZE communities with RE-EES. In addition, innovative P2P energy trading management and optimization platforms of hybrid RE-HV-BV systems are developed for diversified NZE communities with new peer trading price models, improved trading strategies and trading optimizations. This study on hybrid RE-EES systems for both a single building and communities provides significant guidance to develop RE in integrated building and transport sectors for achieving carbon neutrality within urban contexts.
The Department would like to congratulate Dr LIU on the excellent achievement. We wish him continued success.
